Over the last 20 years I’ve spent a considerable amount of time working with startups in our domain. It has been interesting to observe the development of the start up landscape across HR and recruitment technology and the increased focus and attention on this now very popular sector. Go back 7 or 8 years and…
The last time I wrote something critical about LinkedIn, their PR company at the time approached me and asked me to “come in and share your ideas”. I did and met some very nice people, including some folks from LinkedIn. It was a nice session but somehow it felt like I was being talked at…
History was made on Wednesday the 15th of October 2014 at the @workplacetrends conference #wtrends14. Well, maybe thats stretching it a bit! But it’s certainly the first time I’ve ever seen or had the privilege to be involved in the initiative that was @workstock. Cue a “guerrilla presentation” if you can call it that, consisting…
If you’ve been to this blog before you might have noticed that I’m not averse to quoting individuals or articles/papers in my posts. But I don’t do it every time and I like to keep the quotes short in relation to the post. I’ve never been one for blog posts made up largely of other…
Back in November I blogged about the biggest language and personality study ever undertaken and the fact that researchers confirmed they were able to assess your personality by scanning your Facebook likes and status updates. At the time, the research findings got very little coverage and those that did hear about it were very sceptical. I said I…
Man at back: “Yes, id like to take issue with what that guy sitting at the front said”. For reference purposes, I was the man at the front and this is the reaction I get more often than it should when you get me started on ‘Gamification’ in HR and Resourcing. Gamification, is fast becoming…
Following my recent rant about HR’s ignorance around the power of the social, and unstructured content – “all that crap on Facebook and twitter” to the as yet uninitiated – I figured it would be useful to share some specific examples. So, over the next few posts I’m going to feature three examples that are, in…
Well here it is folks – my first ever hosting of the illustrious Carnival of HR and what an honour. Hopefully it won’t be my last 😉 To make things a little more interesting I decided to pick a theme, which turned out to be “challenging the future of the organisation”. It’s been a hotly…
So it’s Carnival of HR time again and yours truly gets to host it – an honour indeed! Rather than make it too easy and leave the subject matter wide open I thought I’d give a theme to work with and that is the Challenging the future of the organisation. This subject is close to…
Engagement. It’s the word on every self respecting HR professionals lips right now. A multi billion dollar industry has even formed around the subject on the back of eye wateringly large budgets invested by organisations in the pursuance of an “engaged” workforce. Despite it being a business priority, and there being more evidence than you can…
